This Forest Is Full Of Many Fools

This is my first personal blog. Cheryl insists I put her name in this right this second as I am writing this as I am learning to rotate and change the size of a slightly green coloured Mid Kent mug onto a picture of a road. Beyond this point, I thought I should explain the reasoning of ‘Fools Forest’. The actual name ‘Fools Forest’ is one of my favourite underground electro/drum n bass record labels. Interestingly Forest is an anagram of Foster which is my surname, so that makes me too cool for school in the naming game. Interested in the real ‘ Fools Forest’? Check out their website www.foolsforest.com
TTFN!!

Trailers – Misleading or Misinterpreted?

Trailers are the point in which an audience probably see the first scenes that either give them the mouth watering excitement or a raised eyebrow thinking “what the hell was that?”. Beyond this point though, trailers can often be misleading or in fact over-giving in terms of plot or action. “The Day After Tomorrow” is in fact one of these trailers, in which I was given too much information and as I mentioned in my post before, I was disappointed,  sitting in the cinema thinking “seen that, seen that, seen that and that in the trailer”

As for misleading trailers, “Walled In” shows the film to be rather scary, and full of horror moments. After watching the film itself, I was disappointed to see horror moments that were far and few between. The film turned out to be nothing more than a confusing plot line that hardly had any moments of horror. Recent film “Twilight : New Moon” shows a small collection of scenes which show Jacob (Taylor Lautner) revealing his true werewolf form when Bella (Kristen Stewart) runs away after being threatened by one of the vampires. However this scene, I have been told, is inaccurate according to the books which came out before the films. After seeing this on the trailer, I was expecting this scene to happen in the film but in actual fact it is two different scenes glued together. Why? I don’t know, but maybe they were trying to give the audience a sense of epicness, action or they were trying to confuse everyone just so they would go and see it and find out.

Trailers that are misleading though are, to me, how someone interprets the trailer themselves. Some people are expectant of certain scenes in a trailer and vice versa in a film no matter what you see or don’t see first. If the trailer really does show an entirely different genre of film,  just to make it look exciting and it isn’t at all what the trailer says then yes, it is a misleading trailer, but it’s not always the trailer that is the culpret in misleading audiences.

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Its The End Of The World Again And Again And Again

Apocalypse films, disaster movies, end of the world films, what ever you want to call them, they’re isn’t too many months in between one and another. One of my top favourite “genres” of film, everyone has had their go at splashing out millions of pounds/dollars on special effects to make the world look like its ending in a dramatic and epic scaled movie.

^ the moment the meteor hits in “Deep Impact”

There is nothing more satisfying than seeing the world come to an end in the most destructive manner possible. For me, every so often I contemplate what it would feel like to watch the world come to an end and how. Apocalypse films do that for me, without having to die or loose all sense of life on earth. Whether it be a large crater formed in land or a gigantic tidal wave destroying the entire length of a city, I am forever pulled in by the magnet that is end of the world movies.

The most recent to join the list of these films is “2012″. Directed by Roland Emerich the man who also directed “The Day After Tomorrow” and “Independence Day”. I went to watch this with a few friends and what was a great spectacle of special effects and great scenes of earth crust destruction, the film was far to strung out at 2hrs 45mins of predictable edge of seat moments and a rather unrealistic storyline to go along with it.

^ the beginning of the end in 2012

My favourite film of this genre would have to be “Deep Impact” (1998) in which a large meteor is in line to destroy Earth and Robert Duval, Morgan Freeman and a host of other actors try to stop it in its tracks. To be honest, I can’t remember the main plot right now and I don’t think I really remember most of these apocalyptic film plots as its the destruction special effects parts that I go to watch them for. The only film I remember the plot to is “The Day After Tomorrow” but only because there was so much hype behind the film and so many exclusive scenes shown on television before the actual release, I had pretty much seen most of what was going to happen and was dissapointed to find that there wasn’t much else to the film but what I had already seen.

My second all time favourite film is “Cloverfield” (2008) which is based in New York and tells a story of an unknown creature/alien that causes havoc in the city/ This film is based all on one hand held camera to give a reality feel to the idea and doesnt include any music from the start to the end. We hardly see the creature throughout the film until near the end when we get a few seconds of a glimpse but not enough to really know what its all about. Its these particular factors that make this one of my favourite films as I like the idea of the hand held camera and the fact that the creature is unknown made me feel like I was part of the whole story and followed along until we were faced with the creature itself. Now you’r probably wondering why I say “Deep Impact” is one of my favourite and then “Cloverfield” is my second all time favourite. This is because “Deep Impact” involves the world and “Cloverfield” only involves New York City so they are different films in my eyes.

^Cloverfield trailer

However whether its a small scale disaster film like “Dante’s Peak”, “Daylight” and “Volcano“, or its an ‘end of the world and everyone is going to die’ film like “2012″, “Deep Impact” and “Independence Day”, I will always turn up to sleep through the plots and watch the destruction happen!!